Forums General Discussion I don't want stable mIRC, i want good looking mIRC

you lose what, 900KB wow. thats a loss :P

How can time be converted into kilobytes?

Anyway, by having too many options you also lose simplicity and efficiency.

mIRC is already pretty slow; even with no scripts running and no /background's it grinds to a halt for quite a while during large floods. I'd hate to see it be slower.

well then i must hope something from trillian...

still no change about interface, damn.. i won't even download new versions, there's nothing new for me in whatsnew.txt

It's worth noting that the 6.1x versions are pretty much bugfix versions. As the homepage specifically states they are designed to make the 6.1x series stable, not to introduce new features and so on (hence the strong concentration on bug fixes which is clear from versions.txt).

Simply as I just saw this, Ashkrynt, I do not find that mIRC "grinds to a halt" during floods, perhaps a gross exaggeration? Or perhaps the server you use hasn't got a good enough 'Excess flood' limit? Or perhaps the ops aren't very good and don't protect the channel against floods? I've never come across a flood which has frozen my mIRC for very long, and the ones that DO freeze it at all are quickly resolved at a personal level by flicking to another window or /ignore -c * for a few seconds

Regards,

If the only thing you're looking for is something that looks good why not just turn off your computer and look at a pretty picture instead? The rest of us who are interested in having an intuitive, functional, and pleasant (ie. non-crashing) IRC experience will stick with mIRC.

if you want cute skin support to view "cool" xp styles and simmiliar, then use skins on your OS and hump it and hump it and hump it and hump it and hump it and hump it and hump it and hump it....

btw: if you want fancy look of program then draw it in paint and look at it; hell use it as wallpaper on desktop

i want to see flower instead of @ , i wanna see dolphine instead of + , i wanna use colored nickname, i want to use picture instead of nick , i want to put graphical topic, i want more fun, why you don't use bitchx ? that's quite better for you, i'll keep wanting these forever.

Don't hold your breath then :tongue:

You can probably add all of that using various dlls.

Dolphins and flowers instead of @ and + is certainly possible - nicklist.dll

Picture instead of nick - nhtmln.dll and smilesview.dll

Graphical topic - nhtmln.dll and some dll to remove the titlebar which I can't remember the name of.

What is "fun" about defacing one of the greatest chat interfaces ever developed and making it look like the side of a New York train carriage?

Dont hold back, tell us how you really feel dude! LOL Personally, I would hate to see a number of options people have mentioned in this thread come to pass.

I always like to get straight to the point lol.

So I noticed lol No questioning your feelings I see ;-)

Well... you could but it means a hell of a lot more typing, ay.

More and more this thread is beginning to look exactly like that!
No arguments from me

finally xchat did what i want yay! i don't need mirc anymore